Testamenta e propinquitas nella declamatio minor 308 (Duo testamenta)

The paper deals with a Declamatio minor, No. 308. The Declamations are a literary genre that usually consisted of exercises for students in rhetorical schools. Declamatio minor 308 deals with the case of a testator who had made two wills, one after the other: in each of them he had named a different friend as heir. The dispute arose in the event that the second will was declared invalid. The arguments discussed in this text are also of interest to legal historians and may help to clarify certain issues concerning the validity and invalidity of wills in the debate at the end of the 1st century AD.